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submitted 10 months ago by mpk@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[-] jax@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The couple both said they found the backlash they faced on social media to be racist since, they argued, minorities often hit their children without the same backlash.

"We are kind of shocked by the racism threaded throughout this recent controversy. It is pretty well-documented that African Americans and other minority groups practice corporal punishment much more than other groups," Simone Collins said via email, linking to a CNN article published in 2011.

Malcolm Collins said it was "uniquely offensive" to him considering "the majority of Americans practice some form of corporal punishment, as you can see from the statistics with specifically that being the minority groups of Americans. So yeah, I think it's an arguably racist position."

this is the stupidest fucking thing I've read all year

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago

I will have to agree.

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